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2 House Democrats Vote Alongside Republicans to Keep Qualified Immunity for Police

Two Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against a police reform package introduced by their colleagues that would bring broad changes to the way policing is carried out across the country. One of the key oppositions to the bill was that it weakens legal immunity for officers, making it harder for them to do their […]

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Mississippi Bill Banning Transgender Student Athletes From Female Sports Heads to Governor

Mississippi legislators have passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in female sports at schools and universities. The state House voted 81-28 on Wednesday to pass the Mississippi Fairness Act, which cleared the state Senate last month by a vote of 34-9. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Tate

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Lake Forest Looks into Providing Its Own Utility Services

The City of Lake Forest is considering developing its own utilities program after bowing out of Orange County Joint Power Authority’s (OCPA) contentious community choice energy plan. Lake Forest city council during its March 2 meeting voted 4-1 to withdraw from the public utility agreement spearheaded by Irvine, and look into options to start its own

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‘Virginia Arcadia’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

What’s 215 feet high, 90 feet long, and has been admired in great art and literature for centuries—from Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” to Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” to Frederic Edwin Church’s landscape paintings? Here’s another hint: Jefferson bought it, along with 157 acres of land, from King George III of England for

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Premiers Call on Federal Government to Increase Health Funding Share in Coming Budget

Canada’s premiers again called on Ottawa to increase its funding share for provincial and territorial health care as it prepares its upcoming federal budget. In a virtual news conference hosted by Quebec Premier François Legault on Thursday, premiers across Canada once again outlined their cases urging the Trudeau government to increase its funding share to

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Montana Lawmakers Seek to Protect Citizens From ‘Extreme’ Political Biases of Big Tech

Montana lawmakers and policymakers took their first big shot at “Big Tech” in what supporters described as an effort to stop and punish censorship and discrimination against social-media users. The first shot missed, but not by much. And if officials who spoke with The Epoch Times are right, the state’s war against what many legislators

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Museums Shouldn’t Be Bullied by the Left on Statues: UK Culture Secretary

Museums shouldn’t be bullied by left-wing campaign groups into removing statues and rewriting history, UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said. Dowden highlighted the risk of museums being “pushed around by unrepresentative campaign groups, principally from the left.” These left-wing groups “put bullying pressure on institutions to rapidly change their approach, to remove our history, to

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Senate GOPers Target Five Transit Projects in House Democrats’ $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill

Senate Banking Committee Republicans plan to introduce an amendment to the $1.9 trillion CCP virus relief bill to kill funding for five transit projects collectively costing more than $175 million, The Epoch Times has learned. The five projects were added in the 11th hour of the House consideration of the gigantic bill that was approved

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